Working cotton / written by Sherley Anne Williams ; illustrated by Carole Byard. [print]
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TextPublication details: San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (c)1992.Edition: first editionDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0152996249
- 9780152996246
- 0152000046
- 9780152000042
- 0152014829
- 9780152014827
- 0758701683
- 9780758701688
- 044083189X
- 9780440831891
- Child labor -- Juvenile fiction
- Migrant labor -- Juvenile fiction
- Families -- Juvenile fiction
- Cotton picking -- Juvenile fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Perseverance (Ethics) -- Juvenile fiction
- Time perception -- Juvenile fiction
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Agriculture -- Juvenile fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Migrant labor -- Fiction
- Family life -- Juvenile fiction
- Afro-Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- CHR 1992
- PRO Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- PRO Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Historical fiction
- African Continental Ancestry Group
- PS3573.W727.W675 1992
- PS3573.I293.H838.W675 1992
- COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission:
- Coretta Scott King Honor, illustrator, 1993.
- Caldecott Honor Book, 1993.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | URL | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Juvenile Book (10-day checkout) | G. Allen Fleece Library Caldecott Collection - Second Floor | Fiction | PZ7.W668174 Wo 1992 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Link to resource | Available | Caldecott Honor 1993 | 31923001795315 |
Art techniques used: Impressionistic acrylic.
"The text of Working Cotton is based on the poems "the trimming of the feathers" and "conejo," originally published in The Peacock Poems by Sherley Anne Williams"--Title page verso.
"The text type was set in Berkeley Old Medium by Thompson Type, San Diego, California. Color separations were made by Bright Arts, Ltd., Singapore. Production supervision by Warren Wallerstein and David Hough. Designed by Trina Stahl"--Title page verso.
A young black girl relates the daily events of her family's migrant life in the cotton fields of central California.
COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission:
Coretta Scott King Honor, illustrator, 1993.
Caldecott Honor Book, 1993.
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